For the first time, the Australian government will sponsor a poet to represent the country, but the details of how they will be selected remain a mystery.

As literary editor Caroline Overington reported in this masthead, poet Sarah Holland-Batt, a frontrunner for the position, has suggested a stipend of $100,000 a year. A hundred grand?

Staff members at the National Library of Australia said they were stunned when they found a 120-year-old box of chocolate hidden in papers of the late poet and journalist A.B. "Banjo" Paterson.

Dorothy Porter, 54, an acclaimed Australian poet best known for crime novels set in verse, died Wednesday from complications of breast cancer in Melbourne, where she had lived since 1993, said ...

Aryna Sabalenka's mission to win Australian Open hat-trick Sabalenka won her first major title at Australian Open 2023 with victory against Elena Rybakina in the final.

What will probably impress American and Australian readers equally is the work of half a dozen early- or mid-career poets who are not easily categorised. They include an expatriate Queenslander ...

The government’s new cultural policy is promising an Australian poet laureate in 2025. But what does that mean?

A poet visiting Huddersfield described locals as the "nicest people in the world" following a chance encounter at a village train station. Australian-born poet, educator and life coach Zohab Zee ...

Anne Marsh receives funding from Australian Research Council and the Australia Council for the Arts. Tomorrow, a new book by the Adelaide-born performance poet and playwright Christopher Barnett ...

Leigh Raaschou was a junior lifesaver in Victoria and worked outside most of his life and “never wore a hat, never wore sunscreen and this is the result of that”.

SO to a vivid weekend, where the relentless assault of emails and tweets and newspapers and magazines online have been shunned for a diving into something deeper, stiller.